Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, February 8th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Ellen MacArthur beats world record.

  Ellen MacArthur finally completed her single handed round the world trimaran voyage in the record breaking time of 71 days and under 13 hours.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Falkland Gold to Start Exploratory Drilling This Month

  Falkland Gold & Minerals Ltd., a company with exclusive rights to explore for gold in the Falkland Islands, said it may begin exploratory drilling by Feb. 25.

• Tuesday, February 8th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands Councillors “relaxed” over Rammell - Bielsa meetings

  Mike Summers, this month's spokesperson for the eight elected members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council said today (Tuesday) that he and his colleagues were taking a “relaxed” view of the meeting last week in Cartagena, Colombia, between Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for British Territories, Bill Rammell and Argentine Foreign Minister, Rafael Bielsa.

• Monday, February 7th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Warn of disappearing Antarctic glaciers.

  Delegates at the climate change conference in Exeter have heard of the contribution that rapid thinning of the Antarctic ice sheet is making to global sea-level rises.

• Saturday, February 5th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Rammell-Bielsa unexpected meeting.

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Bielsa and British Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Bill Rammell unexpectedly met last Thursday in Colombia in the framework of the G24 group that aids this South American country.

• Friday, February 4th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update.

  Headlines:
  Homes open to stranded passengers; Chilean journalists here; Next of kin visit in March; Electoral Bill passed; ?Crazy Heads' support appeal.

• Thursday, February 3rd 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  When Amsterdam came to Stanley and stayed the night.

  The 1,985 inhabitants of Stanley, the tiny capital of the Falkland Islands, like to pride themselves on their hospitality, but this reputation was put to the test and everyone came out to help in the “best Falkland Islands style”, when high winds and rough seas left 936 cruise ship passengers and 63 crew stranded there overnight.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands looking ahead to celebrating the past.

  In their first meeting of 2005, held on Thursday 27 January, the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands (ExCo) agreed that a budget of £150,000 should be set aside to fund celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Islands' liberation from Argentina in 1982.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands importation and quarantine procedures under review.

  At its meeting of January 27th, 2005, the Falkland Islands Executive Council considered a report on importation and quarantine procedures produced by New Zealand consultants, Biosecurity Ltd, which was forwarded to them, for information, after preliminary consideration by the FIG Agricultural Advisory Committee in December last year and reported on by Mercopress at the time.

• Monday, January 31st 2005 - 20:00 UTC

  Mount Pleasant Open Day aims to reassure

  On Sunday, the British military base at Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands played host to the civilian population at an Open Day.